It is different, how we choose to prepare ourselves for life’s big events, but it is rare that the best preparation for a football game found in the bottom of the alcohol they serve on the plane over.
Of Graeme Souness, Kenny Dalglish and Liverpool’s legendary 1981 team, however, it was how they chose to drain the batteries forward towards the finals at the world championship for teams in Tokyo.
We drank all of us full on the plane to Japan and couldn’t sleep, when we came forward, tells Graeme Souness in a column of The Times
The red did not fight for something special, and Liverpool was, after all, Europe’s best team, so they had probably not so much to fear.
the Message from the coaches was also ready before the match.
– This fight is not as important, so don’t be prejudiced, it should have sounded from assistant coach Joe Fagan, according to Souness.
the Liverpool players were also been knocked out of the nine-hour time difference between Liverpool and Tokyo.
– We could not sleep, when we came forward. I stayed at the room with Dalglish, and we saw something bright in the distance and would check it out.
it was three in the night, but it made no difference to the fresh football players.
That was how we ended up at a 24-hours open golf course, and while we struck some ball, then we heard familiar voices and could see that the entire team had met up with the same idea of how we could best handle jetlagget.
It must not be said, how it used to go to Liverpool, when they drank, themselves full on the plane and played golf on the night, but against Flamengo went completely wrong.
The european champions were far under par, while the brazilians were flying.
With delights from Zicos foot, it was a humiliation and a victory of 3-0. They could then call themselves the world’s best club teams, and how they were also celebrated in Brazil.
Liverpool, on the other hand take back to England, where they are undisturbed by the bumpy in Tokyo took three English championships in a row.
On the flight home was just as wet as the trip there, returned Souness’ tale, however, is not something about.
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